FontLab/Multiple Masters

Multiple Master Fonts

A Multiple Master font is a (PostScript Type1) font that contains, a number of styles of a font family in one font. These styles are called masters. Between the masters this specific font format allows interpolation to create instances of this family. The interpolation is defined for up to four dimensions. The result is that a Multiple Master font can interpolate between 16 masters.

Chapter Outline

• Planning Multiple Master Fonts this information helps you building a MM font
• Define Axis defining the axis for your MM font
• Assign Masters assign the Masters to your MM font
• Setting up the Master adjust the outlines of your masters to match the requirements for the MM format
• Import Kerning for Masters import the kerning values for the different Masters
• Value Patterns for the Axis setting up the graduation of the axis of MM fonts
• Defining a Primary Instance set up the values for the instance that should be used by default
• Multiple Master Font Generation generating the MM font
• Generate an Instance Generate an interpolated/extrapolated instance

Resources

• Adobe Tech Note #5087: Designing Multiple Master Typefaces
• Adobe Font Developer Tools and AFDKO download page